How To Start A Podcast – The Book

I’ve had a bit of an on-again, off-again project on the go since early 2019, the long and short of which is, I’ve written a book! It was fairly unexpected and I kind of did this inadvertently, as in reality, a few notes I was making pretty much got out of hand! Those notes quickly…

How To Write Effective Voiceover Scripts

Let’s talk voice over scripts. I’ll caveat this blog post by declaring from the very start, that this doesn’t relate to everybody! The vast majority of scripts that I, and most voice over artists receive will generally be great! Well written, well formatted scripts, with excellent direction included, with adequate pauses for us to breathe,…

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Things A Voiceover Doesn’t Need – An Ear Infection

To be a voice over artist, there are a multitude of things you need. A place to use as your studio. Acoustic treatment and/or soundproofing to ensure a good quality, excellent sounding acoustically ‘dead’ recording space. A good quality microphone that suits your vocal tone well. A Preamp to get that mic talking to your…

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Unaffected And Available – Working From Home During Lockdown

It’s clear that the world is a bit unpredictable at the moment, with millions of people around the world being forced to work from home during this period of lockdown. For a lot of people, that means enduring a hell of a wrench, and a very different way of working. It can be incredibly difficult…

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The Importance Of Music Licensing

Guest blog, written by Mark Malekpour | Content Manager, Beatsuite.com Music Library   Music licensing commonly refers to ‘royalty free music‘ or ‘production music’. This is music that has been written and produced with the sole purpose of being used in another project. Anyone can then license this music for a fee, to use in their…

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Canva – The Documentary

As many of you will probably know due to previous blog posts of mine, I’m a massive fan of Canva, the online graphic design tool. It’s managed to help people with zero (like me) graphic design skills, create good looking visual content very quickly and easily. I heard about a documentary they were featuring in…

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Voice Replication via AI – Time To Start Worrying?

Yesterday I stumbled across a tweet mentioning a website called Lyrebird. It appears to be an artificial intelligence (A.I.) service that can replicate or clone the human voice; enabling you to make a voice say whatever you want it to. It’s not long ago something like this would be completely in the realms of science…